https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lnDc480OhU
Short video less than 2 minutes
First this is no pro or anti police thread, it is about tactics. This is simply a video that shows three situations where the police shot at a suspect through the front windshield of the police cruiser. In each case, the suspect was believed to be armed and dangerous -
I was surprised by two things watching the video. First, I would have expected glass fragments (even micro fragments) to have hit the officer shooting through their windows but the windshields held together really well. Second, in the second video, the officer makes a long range shot (40-50 yards?) at an individual on foot, a suspected armed robber, and seems to get good hits on the suspect. I would have thought the bullet deflection would have made getting good hits at that range nearly impossible especially from a moving vehicle.
Is shooting through the windshield something that officer are being trained to do?
Short video less than 2 minutes
First this is no pro or anti police thread, it is about tactics. This is simply a video that shows three situations where the police shot at a suspect through the front windshield of the police cruiser. In each case, the suspect was believed to be armed and dangerous -
I was surprised by two things watching the video. First, I would have expected glass fragments (even micro fragments) to have hit the officer shooting through their windows but the windshields held together really well. Second, in the second video, the officer makes a long range shot (40-50 yards?) at an individual on foot, a suspected armed robber, and seems to get good hits on the suspect. I would have thought the bullet deflection would have made getting good hits at that range nearly impossible especially from a moving vehicle.
Is shooting through the windshield something that officer are being trained to do?